[MPlayer-users] vidix without being root or suid bit?

[Julien WAJSBERG]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Diego Zuccato wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Arpi wrote:
>
> > vidix has nothing with Xfree, dri and others.
> > it's plain raw driver, accessing the hw directly.
> > you must be root to able to do that.
> Doesen't libdha support a kernel helper? Yep, it needs a kernel patch,
> but if you really don't want to make it suid root...
>
> I solved making it :
> -rwsrwxr-x    1 root     ndk       3387079 Sep 16 13:48
> /home/ndk/bin/mplayer*
>
> So that only root and users in group ndk (I'm the only one :-) ) can run
> it...
>

Mmmm if I'm not wrong.. I think it should be -rwsrwxr-- :) (ie 4774) or
maybe even 4754 :)

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